Turkka Keinonen | Biography

Turkka Keinonen, Doctor of Arts, works as a professor of industrial design at University of Art and Design Helsinki. His teaching and research interests lie in user-centered industrial design and product concept creation.

Professor Keinonen has worked for several Finnish design consultancies, designed paper machinery for Metso Paper and consulted for Finnish National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Healts (STAKES) in international projects aimng at mainstreaming of information technologies. In his doctoral thesis Keinonen studied the influence of usability on consumers' product preference. From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a principal scientist in the usability group of Nokia Research Center, where he led concept creation projects related to in car user interfaces, emotional communication and group communication.

At the moment professor Keinonen acts as the head of research at the School of Design in University of Art and Design Helsinki leading a unit of 20 researchers. He is in charge of several research projects focusing on method development for user research, evaluating and organising design in ICT and engineering industry.

Keinonen has written or co-editedt the following books: One-dimensional Usability (1998) How to design for usability? (2000, in Finnish), Mobile Usability - How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone? (2003), Product Concept Design (2004, in Finnish) and The Change of Industrial Design (2004, in Finnish). He is a co-inventor in 25 international patents. He was nominated the designer of the year 2000 in Finland for his merits in user-centered industrial design and in 2003 he receiced The Federation of Finnish Electrical and Electronics Industry SET prize for developing usability education.